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This is just a reminder that today Joey Lott will be presenting for AS3 Apex and the Flex and Fuse the arch user group at 3pm. You can get more info on this at http://www.as3apex.com/as3/joey-lott-is-coming-to-stlouis-on-october-4th/
Hope to see you there.
- Josh Chernoff.
I give credit to BigSpaceShip for this idea found at this post. Thanks your guys rock!
The thing that has always bugged the heck out of me is the naming convention for loop iterator variables.
Example: loop One would be named “i”, I always thought because it was i for iterator. What about the Second loop named “j”. Whats that stand for? and what do you name the Third loop if there is one? Well if your like me that always kinda confused you and felt convoluted.
Now here’s the cool new idea, use “i” as in Roman Numerals.
Example: loop One would be “i”, loop Two “ii”, loop Three “iii”, ect….. Now that makes sense!
Not only can you quickly identify what loop iterator your looking at but you now have a reason for name the next iterator if you need to.
I know this is not ground breaking or big news but it’s this type of thinking AS3 needs more of and I will continue to promote it so long as I see it.
[UPDATE]::::: Meeting will now start at 3pm NOT 6pm::::: [UPDATE]
Come to a joint event with AS3 Apex and Flex and Fuse the Arch for a night with Joey Lott. There is limited space available so please RSVP by emailing me at josh@gfxcomplex.com And for you who may not know Joey Lott he has written a few O’reilly books such as Action Script Cook book and some online video tutorials about Action script over the years.
The event will be at the Drive Agency, located at 1617 Locust at 3pm on October the 4th.
Hope to see you there.
- AS3 Apex, Fuse and Flex the Arch.
I have made a small and dirty video on how set up FlashDevelop to work with the flex3 sdk so you can create flex applications for free. This video is to get people in the right direction so when they come to the first meeting they should be able to use the ide to develop and test with. FlashDevelop has many other uses and I wil be going over as many as I can at our meeting.
Till then feel free to watch this video and get started today using flex and Air for free.
Video Link: http://www.as3apex.com/videos/flashdevelop_demo.html
Date:
07-12-08
location:
kayaks coffee house
http://www.kayakscoffee.com/home.html
276 North Skinker Blvd.
st.Loius MO, 63130 Map
Time:
6pm
Come and join us for our first meeting about the tools of the trade. I will be presenting about the different ways you can make and use AS3 and as well why each different way is best in their own way. This will be a perfect time for any one who is new to Action script to come and learn as well if you have been using flash for years I will be showing a few things that you may have never seen before. I will also be showcasing Arthropod which is a great new AIR application for debug tracing.
Also if you didn’t know I will be broadcasting this meeting live on the front page.
the bad news is this time around I can only support 30 people at a time since flash media servers needed to broadcast are not cheep. If you would like to donate some money to upgrade our flash media server to support more live connections please paypal it to josh@gfxcomplex.com. Even Then the meeting will be recorded for later viewing available to all.
As a action script coder you have some choices you may not have known about. One of which is my personal favorite named FlashDevelop found at http://www.flashdevelop.org. One of the great things about this coder IDE is that you can easly create a flash, flex or Air project complete with code hinting of custom classes. the other really cool function of this IDE is how it can make getters and setters as well as Event Listener methods just by selecting the var or eventlistener and using Ctrl+Shift+1. The other really great thing about this IDE it’s completely free. There is also a great snipit and template system.
Now as you may already can tell this IDE is a stronger alternative for the Flash IDE where as people who use Flex my feel they can already do most of the things that FlashDevelop provides in the flex builder. Even then you can’t go wrong with FlashDevelop since you can compile with the flex SDK or the Flash IDE from with in one place.
